Psychic Energy

 

Psychic Energy is what moves experience. Before there is a thought, before there is an emotion, before there is any story about anything, there has to be energy.

 

Energy is the felt aliveness of the inner system—the sense of activation, pressure, flow, intensity, or stillness that gives experience its tone.

 

In Deepermind, energy is not a metaphor and not a belief. It is something directly known. You feel energy as tension or ease, excitement or fatigue, openness or contraction. Energy is how experience feels before it is explained.

 

Consciousness knows experience. Energy fules consciousness itself, and the experience it produces. 

 

Energy Triggering

Traumatic events can cause a samskara which can cause various problems such phobias.  If a child is frightened by a cat, they can be afraid of cats for the rest of their life.

 

A deep traumatic event can occur that produces a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) where the system may continue to respond as though danger is still present, even when the outer event is over.

 

PTSD events may involve intrusive memories, hypervigilance, avoidance, and changes in mood and reactivity. (Yoga International)

 

Seen together, these two perspectives suggest that trauma can leave both psychological and experiential grooves in the inner world.

 

Thus the past does not merely stay in memory; it can remain active in the body, emotions, and mind, shaping present experience from below the surface.

 

From a Deepermind point of view, healing begins when these inner patterns are no longer automatically obeyed. 

 

PTSD is a problem that requires professional treatment.

What Blocked Energy Really Means

Blocked energy is best understood as an unresolved neural-emotional loop.

 

When a painful or highly charged event occurs, brain systems involved in threat, memory, and emotional meaning activate together.

 

If the experience is fully felt and integrated, the activation rises, completes itself, and settles. But when the experience is resisted, suppressed, or kept alive through mental replay, the loop remains active. What feels like blocked energy is often a pattern that has not been allowed to finish.

Why the Loop Stays Active

The brain is built to protect and predict. If it believes something important is still unresolved, such as a threat, a loss, or an injustice, it keeps the pattern ready for quick reactivation.

 

A trigger then stirs the network, the network produces familiar thoughts, those thoughts intensify the emotion, and the emotion strengthens the same circuitry.

 

Over time, the system becomes sensitized. The energy feels stuck, but what is really being maintained is repeated firing, repeated emotional charge, and repeated identification with the pattern.

Michael Singer’s View of Stored Energy

In Michael Singer’s language, this is stored emotional energy.

 

When an emotion is resisted instead of allowed, it does not complete its natural cycle. The mind keeps replaying the story, defending it, explaining it, and justifying it.

 

Each replay reactivates the same emotional pattern. The energy feels blocked because awareness has become entangled in the story instead of remaining open to the raw experience itself.

What Resolution Really Is

Resolution does not necessarily mean that the outer situation changes. The event may be over, the loss may be permanent, and the past cannot be rewritten.

 

Real resolution happens when the inner charge is finally allowed to complete itself. Sometimes this occurs gradually, but often it requires conscious participation.

 

In Deepermind terms, the person learns to face the activation directly without feeding it.

 

How Release Happens

When the subject is brought back into awareness during healing work, the anxiety or emotion is allowed to rise instead of being avoided.

 

It is felt directly, held in awareness, and allowed to fall on its own without suppression, dramatization, or fresh mental storytelling.

 

The goal is not to argue with the feeling or get lost in it, but to let the body and mind complete what was previously interrupted. This often has to be repeated several times before the stored charge fully weakens.  See Techniques for information on how to release samskaras.

How the Brain Learns Safety Again

When awareness stays present without reinforcing the loop, the brain begins to update its model of reality.

 

It starts to recognize that the old threat is not happening now. The nervous system no longer has to react as though the past is still present.

 

As this happens, the pattern loses strength, the firing decreases, and the system moves back toward balance. What once felt charged and dangerous begins to lose its force.

The Real Nature of Blocked Energy

Blocked energy is not a mysterious substance trapped in the body like vapor under pressure.

 

It is better understood as an unresolved pattern maintained by resistance, repetition, and identification.

 

When experience is consciously allowed, fully felt, and no longer fed by the mind, the loop begins to dissolve.

 

What was frozen begins to move. What was trapped begins to release. What once controlled the person becomes simply another experience that can finally pass.

The Spectrum of Energy

Energy exists on a spectrum. Sometimes it is high, fast, and intense. Sometimes it is low, slow, and quiet. Sometimes it flows smoothly with coherence and balance.

 

At other times it feels scattered, fragmented, compressed, or congested. These shifting qualities matter greatly because they shape the condition of the whole inner system.

Why Energy Matters So Much

In Deepermind, energy is not treated as a minor side effect of life. It is one of the deepest forces moving through the system.

 

External events may appear to be the cause of everything, but often what matters most is the energetic condition already present within us.

 

Energy tends to influence what happens next. It affects perception, feeling, attention, reaction, and behavior before the conscious mind has fully caught up.

Energy Comes Before Emotion and Thought

One of the most important insights in Deepermind is that energy often comes first, while emotion and thought follow after.

 

When energy rises, the system becomes more alert, activated, and ready for movement. When energy falls, the system may become subdued, withdrawn, or heavy.

 

Emotions and thoughts then arise as ways of interpreting, expressing, or regulating this movement.

 

The mind begins asking why this is happening. The emotions begin registering what it means and how it feels.

 

But the original shift in energy usually comes first. The commentary comes afterward.

How the Mind Mistakenly Explains Energy

A person can suddenly feel anxious, restless, irritated, or weighed down without knowing the reason.

 

The reason is that the energetic state changed first. The subconscious sends a message to the mind about the change of energy and the mind begins searching for an explanation.

 

It assumes there is a logical cause, and tries to identify it. looks for a cause, builds a story, and tries to make sense of the shift after it has already begun.

 

In this way, the mind is often not the original source of the experience. It is the interpreter. It arrives a moment later and starts naming, organizing, and explaining what the system is already feeling.

The Importance of Learning to Notice

This is why inner observation is so important. If you only notice the thoughts, you may believe the thoughts caused the whole experience.

 

But if you look more carefully, you may see that a change in energy came first, and the thoughts formed around it afterward.

 

That insight can change everything. It means that not every troubling thought is a deep truth.

 

Sometimes it is simply the mind reacting to a surge, a drop, or a disturbance in the energetic field of the body and nervous system.

Living With Greater Clarity

The more clearly you learn to recognize energy as energy, the less likely you are to become trapped in false explanations.

 

You begin to see that anxiety is not always caused by a real danger, and heaviness is not always proof that life is hopeless.

 

Sometimes the system is simply moving through a shift in activation.

 

This makes it possible to respond with greater wisdom. Instead of becoming identified with every thought or emotion, you begin to watch the movement underneath them.

 

You learn to sense the current before the waves take shape.

 

That is one of the foundations of Deepermind: to understand that beneath thought, beneath emotion, and often beneath the story itself, energy is already moving.

 

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The Rhythmic Nature of Energy

Energy is rhythmic.  It rises and falls, expands and contracts, accelerates and slows. Like an emotion, energy can be felt as a wave.

 

The whole inner system moves in waves more than just on and off. It pulses, surges, settles, and rises again. This movement is natural. It is part of how life flows through the body and mind.

 

This non-linear rhythmic nature of energy helps explain why moods change, why excitement is often followed by fatigue, and why rest helps restore balance.

 

A healthy inner life includes motion. There are times of activation and times of quiet. If the system is slow to change, the person may be sick.

 

There are times of outward expression and times of inward settling. The movement itself is not a problem, in fact, it requires movement to heal and grow.

Emotions Are Dynamic

If we eat something good, there is a pattern.  First we anticipate. The first bite tastes the best.  The last bite is neither here or there.

 

If you think that you can eat all the time, or even a lot of the time, you will find that food does not do its trick. You my feel bloated, and skip the next meal.

 

The same is true for sex, exercise, reading and watching TV.  We need variety and do a lot of different things.  If someone does something too often, it could be an addiction in the broad sense.

 

Actually addictions can be defined as wanting the same thing too often.

 

So our life moves moves in pulses, bursts, and waves. Emotions such as fear, anger, grief, sadness, pleasure, excitement, relief, and even boredom arrive and go away as a wave.

 

Boredom may seem flat but periods of dullness, restlessness, or lack of interest, come and go.  A healthy system makes sure that they do.

 

In other words, emotions are often brief energetic events moving through the system.

 

If the mind keep craving, one needs to work on themselves, by doing yoga, meditation, or work on mindfulness.

How Stress Builds Over Time

 If the mind puts its attention on one thing too much, energy will seem stuck at a high level, and the person is always feels high energy.  Sleep may become difficult, and concentration may be hard.

 

The mind needs to switch up, doing mental work, then physical work. In this way energy passes through the system.

 

If stress becomes chronic anxiety or a passing hurt becomes stored resentment over time, profession help may be indicated.

 

We need sleep, play and down times.

The Importance of Letting the Wave Move

Much of inner balance depends on letting the wave move without clinging to it and without fighting it.

 

This does not mean acting out every emotion or obeying every impulse. It means allowing the energetic pulse to be felt without turning it into a fixed identity or a long mental drama.

 

When awareness stays present without fusing, the wave completes itself.

 

It rises, crests, softens, and passes. The system returns toward balance.

 

But when awareness becomes trapped inside the state, the natural rhythm is disturbed, and suffering grows.

 

In Deepermind, this is a crucial insight: energy is meant to move.

 

The Nature of Mood

Emotions are like a single instrument.  Moods are like orchestras. Here many emotions blend together. 

 

The mind has a hard time figuring out why we are in a bad mood.

 

 A mood is the overall atmosphere of the inner system at a given time.

 

It is the combined effect of different energetic emotions rising, fading, crisscrossing, and pressing on one another.

 

The mind may know that the person is in a bad mood, but due to its complex nature may not come up with a fix.

 

Often the answer is not figure it out, but lay down and take a nap.  The system might repair itself.

 

After resting there may be a series of events at work.

How Energy Blends Into Mood

In Deepermind, mood can be understood as the result of multiple energy flavors interacting.

 

Anxiety, for example, may involve weak grounding energy, high clarity energy, and unresolved strength energy all working together.

 

The person feels alert and mentally active, yet not stable. There is heightened awareness, but not enough inner support. The system becomes sharp, restless, and uneasy.

 

Depression often shows a different pattern. It may include low flow energy and collapsed strength energy.

 

The system loses movement. Vitality drops. Momentum weakens. The person may feel flat, heavy, slowed down, or unable to rise into action.

 

These examples help show that mood is not just one feeling with one cause. It is an energetic arrangement.

Why Simple Fixes Often Fail

A person may try to talk themselves out of sadness, suppress anxiety, or force enthusiasm, yet the deeper mood remains.

 

This happens because the problem is not always simple.

 

Moods affect the whole system. Several energies may be out of proportion. Some may be too dominant. Others may be too weak. Still others may be stuck and unable to move.

 

What the system needs is not mere correction, but rebalancing.

From Judgment to Orientation

The first thing the mind might do is ask "What is wrong with me?" Here we are asking for judgment.

 

Instead we might ask several questions, "What energies are active right now? Which ones are dominant? Which ones are quiet? Which ones are stuck?"

 

This is a shift from judgment to orientation. Instead of blaming, we observe.

 

 Instead of finding defects, we use detective work.  You can work out a plan, perhaps taking some time off, getting more sleep, eating better, listening more closely.

 

This is a more compassionate and more accurate way of seeing. Mood is not proof that something is wrong with your identity.

 

It is a sign that the inner energies are combining in a certain way. Once that is understood, the goal is no longer self-condemnation. The goal is balance, coherence, and wise adjustment.

Links For More Insight

For how chakras and energy work together click here.

 

To understand how music, sex and sleep can be used to help, click here.

 

To find techniques to help with stress and other conditions, click here.

Working With Energy Directly

Energy responds to rhythm, timing, and coherence.

 

This is why breath, movement, music, chanting, meditation, prayer, and silence can be so effective.

 

These approaches do not argue with the mind or try to force change through thought alone. They work more deeply by changing the energetic conditions in which the whole system operates.

 

 

Music can organize scattered energy.

 

Chanting can steady attention and regulate inner rhythm. Silence can allow what is overactive to settle.

 

These methods work not by debate, but by resonance.

Changing the Conditions of the System

When the energetic conditions of the system change, the whole inner experience begins to change with them.

 

Thoughts may soften. Emotions may become less chaotic. Tension may begin to release.

 

What seemed overwhelming may become more workable, not because the mind won an argument, but because the system itself has shifted.

 

This is an important Deepermind insight.

 

Many problems are maintained not only by wrong ideas, but by disturbed energetic conditions. When rhythm and coherence return, the mind often quiets on its own.

What Working With Energy Really Means

In Deepermind, working with energy does not mean controlling it, dominating it, or manipulating it like an object.

 

It means learning to notice how it moves and learning how to cooperate with that movement more wisely.

 

This includes awareness, rhythm, rest, and non-interference. Awareness notices. Rhythm supports. Rest restores.

 

Non-interference allows the system to do what it already knows how to do when it is not being constantly disrupted.

 

Not Forcing, but Allowing

This approach is gentle, but it is not weak. It does not try to crush energy or escape from it.

 

It does not treat energy as an enemy. Instead, it recognizes that much suffering comes from resisting, tightening, dramatizing, or identifying with what is moving through the system.

 

When that resistance softens, energy often begins to rebalance naturally. A wave that was stuck begins to move.

 

A tension that was reinforced begins to dissolve. What seemed like a permanent state may reveal itself as something that only needed the right conditions to complete its cycle.

How Balance Emerges

Balance does not usually come from forcing the system into submission.

 

 It comes when the system is allowed to retune. Energy moves. Consciousness knows. Rhythm supports. Resistance softens.

 

The system gradually returns toward coherence.

 

This is the deeper meaning of working with energy directly. You do not have to fight the current.

 

You learn how to feel it, understand it, and give it the conditions in which it can resolve. Then balance is not manufactured. It emerges.

 

Learn more about Healing Techniques.

 

How the Brain Uses Chemicals

 

What we call psychic energy is closely tied to chemistry. The brain communicates with itself through neurotransmitters, and these chemical messengers quietly shape how alive, motivated, calm, or connected we feel from moment to moment.

 

When dopamine is flowing, life feels interesting. Curiosity turns on, motivation rises, and the future feels inviting. This is why falling in love feels so energizing—the brain is flooded with dopamine, and everything seems vivid and full of possibility.

 

Serotonin plays a different role. It creates emotional stability and a sense of safety.

 

When serotonin levels are steady, we feel grounded and content. When they drop, as often happens after loss or rejection, anxiety and sadness can take over, even if nothing else in life has changed.

 

Norepinephrine sharpens awareness and gives us drive. In balanced amounts, it makes us feel alert and engaged with the world. Too much of it, however, pushes the system into tension, restlessness, or chronic stress, leaving the body unable to relax.

 

Other chemicals soften the system. Endorphins reduce pain and create a gentle sense of pleasure and ease. Oxytocin fosters bonding, trust, and emotional warmth—the feeling of being close and safe with another person. Together, they give love its soothing, stabilizing quality.

 

Finally, chemicals such as GABA and acetylcholine help quiet mental noise and support clear, relaxed attention. These are especially important for meditation and inner stillness, allowing awareness to remain present without strain or agitation.

 

When these chemical systems are working together in balance, the brain’s networks communicate smoothly. Thought flows, emotions regulate themselves, and energy feels stable and alive. When stress, loss, or constant overthinking disrupts this balance, coherence breaks down, and what we experience subjectively is scattered attention, emotional exhaustion, or a sense that our inner energy has been drained. 

How the Body Shifts into High Gear or Rest

Think of your nervous system as having two main modes, like two gears in a car. One gear is designed for action, alertness, and survival. The other is designed for rest, repair, and peace.

 

You shift between these gears all day long, often without realizing it. In the language of chakras, the lower chakras tend to activate the action gear, while the upper chakras invite the resting gear to come online.

 

Psychology describes these two gears as the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

 

The sympathetic nervous system is what turns on when something matters right now. This is the system that helped our ancestors survive predators, danger, and sudden challenges.

 

When it activates, the body becomes sharp and focused. The heart beats faster. Breathing deepens. Muscles receive more blood. Attention narrows onto what is important. You feel alert, energized, and ready to move.

 

This state is driven by a cascade of chemicals. Norepinephrine is released along nerve pathways, tightening focus and raising blood pressure so the brain and muscles are fully supplied.

 

Adrenaline is released from the adrenal glands, amplifying the signal, increasing strength, speed, and reaction time.

 

Cortisol supports this process when stress lasts longer, keeping fuel available so you don’t run out of energy.

 

Even dopamine plays a role behind the scenes, helping regulate motivation and physical readiness.

 

Together, these chemicals create what we call the “fight or flight” state. This is not bad or wrong. It is essential. Without it, you couldn’t respond to danger, concentrate under pressure, or take decisive action.

 

The problem only arises when this system never fully turns off.

 

That is where the parasympathetic nervous system comes in.

 

The parasympathetic system is the body’s return-to-peace mechanism.

 

It activates when danger has passed and it is safe to rest. The heart rate slows. Breathing becomes deeper and smoother. Digestion turns back on. Muscles soften. The body shifts from spending energy to restoring it.

 

This state is driven primarily by acetylcholine, a calming neurotransmitter that tells organs it is time to relax and repair.

 

Blood vessels gently widen through signals like nitric oxide, improving circulation without urgency. The digestive system becomes active again, supported by chemicals such as vasoactive intestinal peptide and gastrin-releasing peptide, which help the gut do its work efficiently.

 

Serotonin, much of which is produced in the gut, helps regulate digestion, mood, and overall well-being.

 

This is the “rest and digest” state, but it is also the state in which healing happens, sleep deepens, emotions settle, and clarity returns. Without enough time here, the body wears down and the mind stays restless.

 

In everyday life, these two systems are meant to work together, like a rhythm. You engage the sympathetic system to meet life, work, think, and respond.

 

Then you return to the parasympathetic system to recover, reflect, and restore balance.

 

When this rhythm is healthy, you feel both capable and peaceful.

 

Seen through the lens of chakras, lower-chakra activation tends to recruit the sympathetic system, increasing alertness and readiness.

 

Upper-chakra awareness tends to invite parasympathetic dominance, creating calm, openness, and clarity. Neither is better than the other. A balanced life requires both.

 

Peace is not the absence of alertness, and alertness is not the absence of peace. Health comes from knowing how to move between them naturally, allowing the body and mind to work the way they were designed to work.